Next meeting of the heads of member states of Shanghai Organization of Cooperation will be held in our city.

The heads of member states of Shanghai Organization of Cooperation, which includes Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, signed today a memorandum of main aims and directions of regional economic cooperation and of establishing favourable conditions in trade and investment field. After the meeting Mikhail Kasiyanov said that the next meeting was planned to be held in June 2002 in Petersburg.